Across a career establishing themselves as experimentalist indie dynamos, Alt-J have very much been pigeon-holed as three mild-mannered young men with a good handle on their pleases and thank yous. In an interview with them a few years ago, this writer was fishing for tales of wild nights that might fly in the face of their reputation as slightly non-descript, ordinary lads making interesting music. They came up trumps. I mean, can you really ever be described as boring if you’ve had a night out with Batman and a Bond villain? No, you can’t.
“We had a very mad one on the first album, we ended up at Robert Pattinson’s house with Rami Malek,” explained frontman Joe Newman. “It was mental. Emile Hirsch was there too. He’s tiny.”
